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In a vast Abrabian desert there's a group of thieves lead by Bruno(Ali Baba) and the 40 thieves. As they rob and steal everything in site. Popeye, Olive, and Wimpy run a coast guard post. When they got word to be on the watch for thieves. Which takes them on an air travel towards the Abrabian desert. After traveling for many days and nights, they finally made it to civilization which is one of the sites that Ali Baba has set his eyes on. And it's up to Popeye to fight and take down this aggressive thief.

Like "Popeye meets Sinbad" this one is worthy of being one of the best Popeye cartoons ever made.

It's original, it's humorous, and it has plenty of great moments with your spinach loving sailor.

Highly recommended to those who liked the Popeye meets Sinbad one.

The second Popeye colour feature again takes a page from 'The Arabian Nights' as the spinach-eating sailor battles the legendary 'Forty Thieves' (oddly, Ali Baba is absent) who are led by egotistical tough guy Abu Hassan (essentially Bluto in foreign garb, voiced by Gus Wickie). After crashing his flying patrol boat in the desert, Popeye (voiced by Jack Mercer), his gangly girlfriend Olive Oyl (voiced by Mae Questel), and gourmand J. Wellington Wimpy (voiced by Lou Fleischer), end up in a Arabian town that gets thoroughly pillaged by Abu Hassan and his fast moving band of thieves. Finding his friends abducted, Popeye follows the brigands to their magical cave and before you can say "Open Sesame" is battling with two-score Arabesque villains to the rousing tunes of John Phillip Sousa. Needless to say that when things look the bleakest, out comes the can of spinach. The film is fun, albeit a bit dated, and culture-sensitive types will find a pleasing amount of Arab stereotyping over which to wax indignant. The animation is superb and Fleischer Studios Tabletop 3D background technique is on display, especially in the opening desert scenes and in the thieves' cave. The film is all you would expect from a Popeye feature, no more, but no less. In addition to the comic action sequences, there are lots of background jokes to watch for (I liked the 'Ali Cat Café'). The voice talent is great, especially Mercer's constantly muttering, semi-inarticulate sailor. Popeye is a one-of-a-kind character and, IMO, the Fleisher shorts and features made in the first half of the last century are 'his best work', so enjoy.

He always-innovative Fleischer Studios had its own version of the multiplane camera called the 'Stereoptical Process,' 'The Slide,' or better known as the 'setback' camera. Its system was further refined in the studio's second 'Popeye Color Special,' the two-reeler cartoon November 1937 "Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves." Popeye is in the Coast Guard. The sailorman, Olive Oyl and J. Wellington Wimpy respond to a call in Arabia to thwart the Forty Thieves while their attacking a desert town. Throughout all the chaos, Popeye confronts Abu Hassan in an effort to stop his band's destructive actions. A can of spinach enables Popeye to take on the gang.

The Fleischers departed from the vertical camera Disney had designed and built an horizontal one instead. Theirs was situated on a stage, with miniature sets and artwork placed in layers on a huge turntable to capture both background and foreground images. The drawn cels complete with characters were filmed within this framework, with the camera moving forward and backward. In "Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves" its final scene shows Popeye and Olive riding in a wagon illustrated by a three-dimensional effect. Miraculously, the camera pans to Abu and his companions in the normal two-dimensional setting while pulling the wagon. By this time in late 1937 the designers of animated cartoons were pressing the latest technological advancements, most which would still be in use until computers entered the scene in the late 20th century.

First of all, I've seen this cartoon twice and what a difference! The first look was on a generic DVD collection of cartoons and a was a cheap buy. This second look was on the "Popeye The Sailor Man 1933-1938 Volume One" DVD set" with a "restored" picture and it looks stunning. The colors are rich and bold, the contrast great and it almost like something made in recent years.

The story pits "Abu Hassan" (Bluto) against Popeye, the Coast Guard man (along with Olive Oyl and Wimpy). The radio announces Hassan and his 40 thieves have just committed some crime so Popeye takes off in his flying ultra-modern-looking boat. (The radio then changes shape, reaches out and snatches Wimpy's hamburger from his mouth!)

As cool as the plane-boat is, however, it conks out and crash lands in the desert. Our good guys look like Moses and Hebrews crossing the long desert. Only Popeye seems to be holding up and then figures out a clever way to get all three of them to a place where they can get food and water, and then go looking for the bandit. By now, he doesn't have much further to go. They are there in that Casablanca-like city

Rather than going into all the details in this special, 17-minute Technicolor cartoon, suffice to say it was not only interesting but very clever (especially Popeye's butchering of words) and a real hoot to see in that "restored" cut of it.

This cartoon features the normal Popeye humor and heroics, all packaged in one beautiful- looking animated short!

A POPEYE Cartoon.

After crashing his plane in the Sahara, POPEYE THE SAILOR MEETS ALI BABA'S FORTY THIEVES when brigand Abu Hassan loots the desert village where the old spinach muncher has found respite. With Olive Oyl captured as a slave for the Thieves, it's time for our hero to come to the rescue...

This was the second in a series of 3 excellent two-reel cartoons, created by Max Fleischer, in which Popeye & his friends are interpolated into the classic stories of The Arabian Nights. They feature great animation - notice the fascinating 3-D backgrounds - and taut, fast-moving plots. Meant to be shown in movie theaters, they are miles ahead of their Saturday Morning counterparts. Jack Mercer is the voice of Popeye; Mae Questel does the honors for Olive Oyl.

I love Fleischer's take on Popeye the Sailor better than all the other versions of the character. This cartoon and "Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp" are favorites from Popeye's colorful "Arabian Nights" trilogy.

I enjoy the desert scene in which Popeye, Olive Oyl, and Wimpy walk through the sand. Wimpy's mirage of a feast and the "tank roll" scene are also highlights for me. I also love the scene at the cafe when Popeye snatches Abu Hassen/Bluto's underwear off him without removing his clothes. One final moment that I enjoy is when Olive kisses Popeye while pacing back and forth on the pier while on duty.

It is more like Abu Hassan and the 40 thieves.

Popeye, Olive Oyl and Wimpy take the desert by storm as they try to stop the looting from Abu Hassan.

Some spinach goes a long way for Popeye as he motors up hic camel.

This is a two reeler cartoon. It has some inventive dialogue mumbled by Popeye.

However some of the animation still looks cheap and the longer running time has Abu Hassan just singing his signature song.

I was fortunate to see an excellent print of this. Popeyes is in pursuit of the rogue Abu Hassan, and Olive Oyl and Wimpy are along for the ride. Alas, their plane crashes in the Arabian Desert and the trio must trek across the desert getting more hungry and thirsty as they go. As to be expected, it is Wimpy who sees a mirage of sumptuous food. My favorite line of the film happens during this trek. Popeyes looks around and all he can see is sand and mumbles "I'd make a sandwich if I had a which." Abu Hassan captures Olive Oyl and Wimpy, but not to worry, Popeeye lays low not only the forty thieves but Abu (who could be Bluto's twin) - and all this to John Philip Sousa sounding music. Popeye's under his breath comments are always a highlight of these cartoons.

For those who hasn't see Popeye meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves digitally remastered on DVD, you're in for a revelation! I'm so happy that Warner Bros. got rid of the dreadful A.A.P. opening and closing titles of all Fleischer Popeye cartoon movies and put back the original Paramount titles where it belongs.

I love the cartoon. Especially Abu Hassan (Bluto) and his boys singing that catchy tune back in 1937 which is still timeless to this day. Can't stop singing! It's now available either can buy or rent it as part of the Popeye collection (1933 - 1938) available exclusively from Warner Home Video.

When this show was on I watched it every time I could! I thought that the characters were really funny and all had great personalities. The animation in My opinion was crisp, clean, and really clear. Not to mention beautiful! Most of the characters in this show are hilarious like the Looney Tunes characters that we all love. in My opinion these characters are the funnies and talented ever seen. In fact, The things that goes on in this series' cartoons are in My opinion nuts which that is what makes them hilarious! There are so many to like and laugh at and the silly things they do! If you like the original Looney Tunes then I strongly recommend that you watch this show!

Max Fleischer is the man responsible for the blossoming American animation film industry and he inspired the likes of Walt Disney, Walter Lantz and even Leon Schlesinger. Popeye became the most popular short-film series in the United States when Fleischer bought the film rights to the character, thus resulting in classics like 'Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves' and so forth.

These early Popeye shorts employed what is commonly referred to as 'rubber hose animation' where the characters lacked any specific points of articulation making their arms and legs look 'bendy'. I love these shorts because of the surreal charm they still have eighty years on. They're not trying to pretend that its animation is perfect, they just want to entertain the audience with its fast-paced and ridiculous animation.

I really do like these cartoons' they're lovely time capsules in spite some of the inherent racism that was unfortunately prominent in the 30s. With that said, these cartoons were never made with the intent of offending anyone through any inappropriate characters, they were just products of the time which we can thankfully look beyond now.

Popeye is still a beloved cartoon icon around the world and for good reason; he made the United States and the world happier during the Great Depression, and for that he's become a real superhero in his own right.

When it comes to Fleischer Studios, the best cartoons in the Popeye series sees some of their best work. They saw Fleischer at their funniest and most energetic and can't get enough of the characters and chemistry between Popeye and Bluto. They thankfully are not among the studio's most saccharine efforts even if other Fleischer cartoons are more innovative visually. Did find Olive Oyl's underuse and generally lesser material compared to Popeye and Bluto a frequent problem though.

Popeye's Arabian Nights cartoons, 'Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor', 'Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves' and 'Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp' (released in that order), are all among the best of Popeye. Although they are the longest of the series, they are also among the funniest and most colourful and love all three of them equally. If having to choose between the three, 'Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp' gets the marginal edge.

Again it would have been nice to have Olive having something more to do than mostly being a plot device. People may not take kindly to the stereotypes either. But what people see the Popeye cartoons for are done splendidly, but wasn't really expecting anything less.

One of 'Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves' best assets, perhaps even the best asset, is the animation, which is nothing short of wonderful. Meticulously detailed, vibrant and sees a lot of smoothness in design and with some imaginative visual flourishes. The music has a lot of merry character and sumptuous orchestration (that song too), and while the story is a bit typical when it comes to the Popeye and Bluto (as Hassan) conflict it was hard to not love its take on the Ali Baba story.

The dialogue is fresh and one can tell that the writers were having a great time writing the dialogue here, mumbles and asides have seldom been more hilarious relished as ever by Jack Mercer, who was the most prolific voice actor for Popeye for good reason. "Ah, nature beat me to it" is very quotable, one of the most quotable in a Popeye cartoon in my view. The gags are plentiful and always very funny and more as well as lively in timing.

Wimpy is used better than he is in 'Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor' and the horses funny. It is more with Popeye and Bluto where the cartoon especially entertains. The two are spot on and their chemistry drives 'Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves' and has so much energy. Popeye is always amusing and likeable enough but for me Bluto is here the funnier and more interesting character. The voice acting is fine, with Mercer being the standout.

In conclusion, excellent Popeye cartoon. 9/10

The song of Abu Hassan and his 40 thieves is the axis of this charming short adaptation of classic story, great for the humor, fight scenes and for the admirable Wimpy serving in exemplary manner his interest. So, an admirable short film, remembering the emotions of childhood and giving a precious gift of adventures and songs and humor and wise use of cliches.

Bluto and the forty thieves are terrorizing and burglarizing a city on the desert. When Popeye, Olive, and Wimpy are accosted by the big guy, Popeye goes into full attack mode. During the confrontation, Olive gets kidnapped. This leads to a rescue attempt and trip to the cave of the forty thieves.

The radio announces an attack by Abu Hassan. Popeye takes off in his Coast Guard flying boat to take on the bandits. He is joined by Olive Oyl and Wimpy. This is a colored Popeye short and simply one of the best. Almost every moment is memorable although I did forget the flying boat. Every gag is the best. It is completely wonderful.

Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves (1937)

** 1/2 (out of 4)

Popeye, Olive Oyl and Wimpy are in a plane that crashes in the desert and soon Ali Baba sees the lady and wants her, which doesn't sit well with Popeye.

This here was the second two-reeler to feature Popeye going up against a famous character. The first had him going up against Sinbad and it was much better than this here. As with that film, this one here mostly benefits from the beautiful Technicolor that jumps right off the screen. The animation is the high level that you'd expect but there's no question that the colors are what makes this. Just take a look at the skyline during the opening credits or the shot of the plane going around the globe. As far as the story goes, it's pretty typical for a Popeye short and it honestly doesn't work that well with the 17 minute running time.